The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.
The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best, how it works, and how they can use you.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
